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How and Why Mitt Romney Won the Third Debate
By
Jack Kerwick
Whatever anyone else says, Mitt Romney scored but another decisive victory in his third and final debate with Barack Obama on Monday night. Beforehand, Republicans tended to speak as if they thought that it was all but a foregone conclusion that their man would crush the President on foreign policy. Obama, after all, is an…
For Americans, the Truth is Never Good Enough
By
Jack Kerwick
Sometimes, the truth isn’t good enough. Thus says Batman to Jim Gordon in the concluding scene of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. Americans disagree. To know anything at all about our public policies and discourse is to know that Americans hold that the truth is never good enough. Plato long ago referred to “convenient…
People Died and Obama (and Candy Crowley) Lied
By
Jack Kerwick
At the second presidential debate, Barack Obama claimed that within hours of its occurrence, he referred to the September 11th attack on the American embassy inLibya as an “act of terror.” When Mitt Romney proceeded to challenge the President’s veracity on this score, moderator Candy Crowley insisted that Obama was correct. This brief exchange is…
Romney Wins Another–And Here’s Why
By
Jack Kerwick
The second presidential debate is now history. As was the case in Mitt Romney’s first encounter with President Obama a couple of weeks ago in Denver, the former prevailed. That Obama was feistier than he was in the first debate is undeniable. However, equally undeniable is that, as far as his electoral prospects are concerned,…
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